Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below

Rosset, Peter; Barbosa, Lia Pinheiro; Val, Valentín; McCune, Nils

doi:10.1080/14747731.2021.1923353

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“…Informed by Latin American Critical Thought, social movements have elaborated a decolonial perspective on territorial development, inverting its colonial and neocolonial origins. Those movements have sought to extend EcoSol-agroecology networks, potentially towards regionalism from below [22]. Moreover, they have recast hegemonic concepts for counter-hegemonic meanings and practices, as outlined in the literature review and illustrated by our three case studies.…”

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“…Such networks have been most politically charged and popularly organised in Latin America, resulting from joint efforts by rural movements, intellectuals, and agronomists. Together they have promoted a regional integration, even a regionalism from below, by territorialising nearby agroecological initiatives [22]. Their strategies have been informed by a broader Latin American Critical Thought, which critically analyses the Eurocentric neocolonial roles of hegemonic concepts, e.g., modernity, modernisation, technology, territorial development, nature protection, etc.…”

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Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America

Levidow

2023

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An agroecological transition can enhance resilience by several means, e.g., managing ecological relationships through agroecosystems, enhancing farmers’ knowledge of natural resources, recycling those resources, maintaining biodiversity, and thus, flexibly adapting to environmental stresses. However, the hegemonic agri-food system has been continuing its capitalist transition, thereby undermining agroecological methods and deterritorialising social bonds. Facing this pervasive threat, an agroecological transition needs a greater convergence between agroecological production and a solidarity economy (economia solidaria or EcoSol in Latin America). Their convergence can be called EcoSol-agroecology, based on short food supply chains (called circuitos cortos there). These efforts develop territorial markets, generate more stable livelihoods, and thus keep producers on the land. In our study, each research team collaborated with an EcoSol-agroecology network to develop Participatory Action Research methods. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted their circuitos cortos, stimulating creative adaptations or alternatives, alongside demands for policy support measures. These networks have regionally territorialised local initiatives, while also confronting obstacles from the hegemonic system. Although socioecological resilience often means a system’s capacity to bounce back, here it has meant bouncing forwards through new opportunities for solidaristic livelihoods and bonds. EcoSol-agroecology networks, agri-extensionists, and researchers have jointly developed such counter-hegemonic strategies, as illustrated by the case studies here.

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Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America

Levidow

2023

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“…In an increasingly interconnected globe, transnational networks and cross-border civil society engagement have gained salience as conduits for regional integration and become particularly critical for instances when politics or ideological orientation make governments refrain from playing that role (Igarashi 2018;Titifanue et al 2020). We thus have the emergence of "regionalism from below" (Rosset et al 2021) related to such a bottom-up process of building regionalisms based on social movements acting and thinking locally. These movements weave connections to grassroots experiences and bring local knowledge elements.…”

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Bottom-up regionality and the Sustainable Development Goals: civil society organizations shaping 2030 Agenda implementation in Latin America

Galvão,

Lima,

Ramiro

2023

Rev. bras. polít. int.

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“…However, the limitations of this type of connection should be better analyzed in order to determine its real contribution to territorial strengthening processes [28]. Moreover, in times of conservative offensives, especially in Latin America, instruments for strengthening collective subjects are essential to maintaining and reinventing processes of peasant resistance [60][61][62][63], also facing ecological trends and sociopolitical processes linked to climate change [64].…”

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“Good Morning, Poet, How Are You?” Peasant Poetry and Its Vitality in Sertão do Pajeú (Brazil)

Cabral

Hernández

2023

Sustainability

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The present paper discusses the presence and vitality of peasant poetry as an expression of the peasant way of life in Sertão do Pajeú (Brazil), and it seeks to understand to what extent it can play an important role in the territory, such as agroecological organizations considering work from the concept of “coexistence with the semiarid” as a communication and popular education tool. We performed semi-structured interviews, participant observation and bibliographic and documentary research. In addition, we filled in a field journal and took photographic and audiovisual records. We understand peasant poetry as an expression of the popular culture of that territory, produced by peasant poets to interpret, communicate and reaffirm their way of life and their relationship with nature. Peasant poetry is part of the identity and is currently present in the collective memory of Sertão do Pajeú, and it has been guided by agroecological organizations and can become an instrument capable of enhancing the search for environmental sustainability in the territory.

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Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America

Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America

Bottom-up regionality and the Sustainable Development Goals: civil society organizations shaping 2030 Agenda implementation in Latin America

“Good Morning, Poet, How Are You?” Peasant Poetry and Its Vitality in Sertão do Pajeú (Brazil)

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